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Rocky Mound, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75686. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Rocky Mound within Camp County

Population over time

2 figures

Rocky Mound grew from 75 to 78 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201075
202078+3 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

438 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 438 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Mound between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,643 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning277
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism20
Power generation/transmission/distribution19
Natural9
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4114
8 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1085 FM 1520
8 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1342
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use48 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6300
7 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODLAND HARBOR
6 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 556
5 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4114

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camp County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Macedonia3.2 miles8
Pittsburg3.4 miles12
Leesburg3.9 miles12
Harvard4.0 miles8
Pecan Heights4.4 miles8
Hickory Hill5.7 miles12
Spring Hill6.5 miles8
Crossroads6.8 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Rocky MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978411The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1345481. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.